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How Legal Marijuana Funds Education: Colorado Taxes Go To Prevent Bullying How Legal Marijuana Funds Education: Colorado Taxes Go To Prevent Bullying. Students in Colorado may soon have new alternatives to prevent bullying thanks to all the money the state is planning to dish out to schools from the surplus marijuana tax revenue. Colorado’s Department of Revenue reported marijuana sales peaked at nearly $98.6 million by May and reached up to $117.4 million in June.
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New in Colorado: College scholarships funded by weed By Kristen Wyatt, Associated Press. A Colorado county that boasts the world’s largest outdoor marijuana farm and has been actively courting the new pot industry has approved the world’s first marijuana-funded college scholarship. Pueblo County voters approved the pot tax by a 20-point margin Tuesday.
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Marijuana becomes legal in Colorado: Frequently asked questions By Brady Dennis and Ariana Eunjung Cha By Brady Dennis and Ariana Eunjung Cha January 2, 2014. On Wednesday, Colorado became the first state to allow legal sales of marijuana for recreational use. Washington state will do the same this year, and other states might follow suit. Here are answers to some basic questions about marijuana, its effects on the body and the issues raised by legalization:
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Louisville, Kentucky outdoor warning siren slideshow part 1 The audio is a recording of siren ambiance at my uncle's house off Whips Mill Rd in Lyndon for the 2008 Kentucky statewide tornado drill on March 4, 2008. Thanks to my uncle for taking all these pictures for me.
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Did Legalizing Marijuana Help Coloradoâs Economy? The tax revenue from legalizing marijuana could benefit all levels of government: federal, state and local. You can see how Colorado’s legalization of weed has already benefited the local communities and the state. For the majority of the U.S., marijuana is being distributed illegally.
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Is Colorado's homeless surge tied to marijuana legalization? Marijuana has transformed the Colorado landscape since it was legalized in 2012, creating an economic boom of thousands of jobs and billions of dollars in economic activity.
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Coloradans pay up to $400 an ounce for legal marijuana as price of drug goes sky high after legalization Recreational marijuana is now legal to buy in Colorado, and it's not cheap. But pot smokers who waited in five-hour long lines weren't necessarily looking for a deal on Green Wednesday. Our most expensive strains sold the quickest, said Toni Fox, proprietor of Denver's 3D Cannabis Center, to The Huffington Post.
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In Colorado, Marijuana Taxes May Have to Be Passed Back DENVER — In the State Capitol, they are calling it Refund Madness. A year after Colorado became the first state to allow recreational marijuana sales, millions of tax dollars are rolling in, dedicated to funding school construction, marijuana education campaigns and armies of marijuana inspectors and regulators.
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Colorado stash: $184M in marijuana taxes Colorado expects to take in about $184 million in tax revenue from marijuana in the first 18 months after legislation -- and much of that money will be funneled into teaching kids to stay away from pot.The state's Joint Budget Committee released the report.Marijuana became legal for recreational use in Colorado on New Year's Day. The committee projects revenue of about $610 million from retail and medical marijuana from Jan. 1 of this year to June 30, 2015, the end of the next fiscal year.olorado expects to take in about $184 million in tax revenue from marijuana in the first 18 months after legislation -- and much of that money will be funneled into teaching kids to stay away from pot.
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Marijuana Legalization Bills: Colorado Lawmakers Pass Historic Legal Weed Regulation, Tax Bills On the final day of the legislative session, Colorado lawmakers finally passed two historic bills to implement recreational marijuana legalization in the state -- making Colorado the first state in the U.S. to take such steps toward the legal sale, regulation and tax of marijuana for recreational use.
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Colorado's missing marijuana taxes Colorado is missing $21.5 million in pot taxes. Voters legalized retail marijuana (pot for everyone, not just medical patients) in 2012. And they were told the state would pull in $33.5 million from two new taxes in the first six months of 2014. It turns out, the projections were way off.nd there's more than one way smokers are scoring pot without paying taxes. Some are likely procuring it under the table from medical marijuana patients who buy it on the up-and-up and then resell it illegally -- depriving the state of tax revenue.
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- Those two types of green are flowing in and out of Colorado’s 200 dispensaries: lots of cash to buy potent strains of cannabis. Nearly $19 million in March alone. In 2012, voters ended the state’s prohibition on marijuana in a revolutionary referendum, as did voters in Washington state.
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Coloradoâs Governor John Hickenlooper warily learns to live with pot When the people of Colorado voted in 2012 to legalize recreational marijuana, they instantly transformed their governor, John Hickenlooper, into America’s most reluctant pot pioneer. “If it was up to me, I wouldn’t have done it,” Hickenlooper admitted. “We were worried about everything,” Hickenlooper
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23 States Now Offer Form Of Legal Marijuana; 58% of Americans Support Legalization According to The Chicago Sun-Times, sales of medical marijuana reached $210,000 in the first week. Colorado’s legalization efforts have become so successful that tax revenue for marijuana outpaced tax revenue from liquor sales in fiscal year 2014. Washington state also successfully legalized marijuana in 2012.
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Is Colorado's homeless surge tied to marijuana legalization? But some in Denver, the unofficial legal marijuana capital of the US, are not so sure. Colorado has seen an uptick in homelessness of just over 8% since 2013, a year after the state backed legalization, fueling speculation over whether the looser rules have boosted the numbers of those on the city’s sidewalks and in its shelters.
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Colorado makes $3.5M in pot revenue in January Colorado voters approved a 15% excise tax on marijuana producers to pay for school construction, and a 10% special sales tax on consumers. The state legislature has the option to increase the special sales tax to as much as 15% in future years.
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It's No Toke: Colorado Pulls In Millions In Marijuana Tax Revenue Together with local sales taxes and special taxes, the tax imposed on consumers in Denver on the purchase of marijuana can reach as high as 21.12% (downloads as a pdf). Denver County accounted for more than half of all medicinal and recreational marijuana related sales tax revenue, while outside of the capital, taxes can be closer to 13%. No matter the level of tax, sales were pretty healthy statewide, with $14.02 million worth of recreational pot sold.
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Colorado Marijuana Taxes Prop. AA Passes: Legal Weed Will Be Taxed Colorado Marijuana Taxes Prop. AA Passes: Legal Weed Will Be Taxed. A year after Colorado voters approved the legal recreational use of marijuana by adults, state voters approved a 15 percent excise tax and 10 percent sales tax on all recreational marijuana sales in the state, Tuesday night. Talk about high taxes.
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- Colorado voters overwhelmingly supported state taxes on marijuana, and the state collected tens of millions of dollars in the first year of legalization. But in a strange twist, all those taxes raised from pot may have to be refunded because of a quirk in the state's constitution.
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Colorado makes $3.5M in pot revenue in January Colorado makes $3.5M in pot revenue in January. Colorado collected more than $3.5 million in taxes and fees from both recreational and medical marijuana in January, according to figures released today by the state's Department of Revenue. Post to Facebook.
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Marijuana Tax Revenue May Top $3 Billion A Year With Legalization In Colorado, where recreational marijuana is legal, recreational marijuana tax revenue has been far lower than predicted. Still, recent studies have projected that the U.S. marijuana industry may reach $8 billion to to $10 billion in sales by 2018. In 2012, Colorado and Washington state legalized recreational marijuana.
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Coloradans pay up to $400 an ounce for legal marijuana as price of drug goes sky high after legalization Recreational marijuana is now legal to buy in Colorado, and it's not cheap. But pot smokers who waited in five-hour long lines weren't necessarily looking for a deal on Green Wednesday.Our most expensive strains sold the quickest, said Toni Fox, proprietor of Denver's 3D Cannabis Center, to The Huffington Post.ecreational marijuana is now legal to buy in Colorado, and it's not cheap. But pot smokers who waited in five-hour long lines weren't necessarily looking for a deal on Green Wednesday.
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Colorado Marijuana Information Legal marijuana in the state of Colorado is going to be competitively priced. Denver has a sales tax of 21.12%, and you can find marijuana for around $15-$25/gram before taxes. Buying the maximum amount (7g for non-residents) at each store will lower the price per gram significantly.
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An Out-of-State Visitors Guide to Marijuana in Colorado An Out-of-State Visitors Guide to Marijuana in Colorado On December 10, 2012, Coloradans passed Amendment 64, effectively legalizing the possession and sale of marijuana in the State of Colorado, making Colorado one of two places in the world where an adult, over the age of 21 can legally possess and consume marijuana recreationally.
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Nine things to know before smoking pot in Colorado The short answer is: tax revenue. In the most recent fiscal year, Colorado generated $9.1 million in retail sales tax from the sale of medical marijuana. This figure is bound to surge with the introduction of recreational sales and the additional 25% in excise and sales taxes thereon in 2014.
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Why Colorado and Washington Were Wise to Legalize Pot That's why other states should follow the example of Colorado and Washington and legalize the recreational use of marijuana. Harnessing the power of entrepreneurs is much more productive than fighting it. On January 1, Colorado legalized the sale of small amounts of marijuana for recreational use. Later this year, Washington will follow suit. Alaska, Arizona, California, D.C. and Oregon may be the next states to permit cannabis businesses.